 Good morning to all of you, hope I am audible. I am Srinivas from SRM University, Katanglothur which is some 40 kilometers from Chennai and I am happy to share with you some of the information related to what SRM University has planning I mean has planned and executed with respect to computer program course. But in the past 10 or 12 presentations I mean everyone could easily understand that more or less many things are almost similar but we are deviating little bit here and there. It is better that we take including me the best out of all and we will try to implement. And this is just for your information we have 5 campuses totally now running out of which 2 are quite new and on the whole we have 3 faculties engineering technology medicine and science and humanities and naturally department of IT and CAC form a particular school under the faculty of engineering and technology. And coming to our purpose I would like to say that before going through this slide maybe I will go through this particular thing which I have put as a note. Since we feel that students generally do not get settled right in the first semester mindset as well as their environment what has been decided in SRM is we do not introduce any programming concepts or related subjects right in the first semester. We have only one editor package related lab right in the first semester probably as of now MS office is being taught maybe in future we may go for open office and the second semester also there is a theory course as well as a practical course and the theory course is named as program design and development where in which we have a fantastic book of course there are 3 or 4 good books but what we have chosen is that textbook written by Maureen Sprankel problem solving and programming concepts which never touches upon any language in specific. As you very well know once a student goes through the programming concepts and methodologies it is always easier for him to her to adapt to maybe C or C++ or any other language in future of course with the corresponding syntax. So this I found I am handling this subject for a second time this I mean 2 times I have handled I found this one of the I mean subject as well as the book to be probably very good the approach is really fantastic. And as said earlier since we have given only an editor package in the first semester it has to be or it is correct to introduce to a particular programming language in the second semester and appropriately we have a practical course called as Unix and C where it naturally we take the what to say exercises or experiments related to C language. So these 2 go in parallel right in the second semester. So coming back maybe I have told about the beginning part we will go through the syllabus and as I said earlier it almost looks similar to what we are having or what we have seen in many of the colleges or universities. The credit is 3 lecture I mean 3 credits so naturally we what to say work it out to 45 periods of lectures each of 50 minutes which is probably I think is everywhere in 45 periods. So roughly 4 periods a week which amounts to 45 to 48 periods in a semester and coming back these are the major topics introduction to problem solving logic structures loop and case and within data structure you find only array there because we it has been thought that arrays the basic data structure with which they can further build and file concepts. And I like to mention one additional point like the entire book has not been covered here the syllabus has been framed in such a way that probably some 60 to 70 percentage of topics right from the beginning to maybe 60th or 70th percentage has been covered in the syllabus accordingly because naturally if you go through the book the last 3 or 4 semester I mean chapters will be of naturally little bit higher concepts. So that is the way it has been done in this particular syllabus and in similar to all colleges we do prepare a lesson plan which generally is what to say done in a collective way and we try to follow it and the very first hour is normally dedicated to why the subject is being taught need for the subject a discussion is has to be there and we do insist more about that was whatever subject whether it is PDD or be it computer or data structure whatever it is need is quite important and periodically also we try to insist upon the need for why we study a particular paper or a particular topic of course it is not possible to justify everywhere wherever possible and wherever essential we thought it will be done. So you can find out that maybe the unit wise we have approximately as per syllabus 9 hours and may be required will be either 9 or somewhere between 9 to 11. So this is the normal fashion followed depending upon topics we can go little bit higher and of course certain reference books are there these are all also quite good books and when we prepare a lesson plan we normally follow this kind of style practically speaking to be honest whether we are fully implementing this or not but we make it a point here at least for certain subjects we used to do that two seminar topics has to be suggested by the set of faculty and the appropriate I mean approximate period from where they have to conduct. This naturally mentions either we can bring persons from nearby colleges or from industries as we wish if we make it a point here at least one or two subjects within a particular class seminars will work out and we are trying to follow this also. So this is a sample lesson plan of the same subject and coming to the evaluation pattern every any theory course we have 50 internal marks continuous assessment and 50 as final end semester exam and by saying weightage I think you can understand that we normally conduct many components for higher marks and we bring it down to the actual marks so that is there and for a practical course it is 75 plus end semester 25 which counts for total 100 and coming to the components of theory course we have two tests roughly after a month and after the second month which is conducted for 50 each converted to 10 each so 10 plus 10 20 and we have two surprise tests generally followed by the corresponding test internal test we conducted for 20 or 25 the flexibility is there with the faculty we converted to 7.5 and 7.5 which accounts for 15 and there is a model exam at the end of the say rough 3 and half semester 3 and half month semester which is conducted for 100 marks converted to 15 it accounts for 50 marks in total and coming to the practical course since 75 is the internal the entire mark is dedicated to the experiments being carried out every week and may be an example is there if I go ahead for 10 experiments or the syllabus goes with 10 experiments each experiment can carry out 7.5 marks and we conduct a final exam for say 50 or 100 depending upon the nature of subject and converted to 25 and coming to the attendance and grading system attendance as in many private universities we make it 75 percentage as mandatory for any theory or practical course so that makes a student to get into the exam no marks are normally given in internal assessment as you have seen earlier here and a relative grading system is what followed for giving the final results the method followed may be it is a bit elaborate I will make it one line I will give the main point here assume for a particular subject like PDD for which say 240 students have taken in 3 campuses the average mark will be calculated and if it comes to say 60 average mark of PDD written by all students is 60 2 third mark is calculated which is 40 and 40 is the pass mark for that particular subject so any student getting below 40 gets a fail the same example when the average goes high as in another example 66 44 is the pass mark so the pass mark keeps varying which is very much known to the system of relative grading but we make it a point that every time so the meaning is every subject will have a different pass mark so initially we found it difficult to explain it to students but may be by now the system is being followed for the past 2 years and we have got a positive feedback from students like as we can understand relative grading makes good academic students to always maintain a high level of grading which is not possible in the normal system a good student in a class always maintains probably A and A plus in all his or her subjects and the type of questions are quite simpler with respect to our university we have only 2 types of patterns there 2 marks questions which naturally has to be answered in brief and detailed answers which account for 16 marks no doubt every faculty generally goes for subdivisions there 8 plus 8 12 plus 4 or accordingly depending upon the nature of the answer and one one or two sample question papers I have this is a internal assessment test you could find both types of questions within 2 marks also certain things related to concepts certain things related to definitions also and this is also there this example you can see there are subdivisions also and coming for the surprise test the faculty has the flexibility of conducting say generally by saying separately we generally end up in a test in a class but there are different variations shown by faculty may be since I had gone to a active learning what is a workshop earlier I could take one or two tips out of that and may be what I am following in PDD right now the earlier year also was instead of going for the regular objective Q and A question which is quite popular among students I take pick up the second mode one surprise test I go for objective one for the I mean the second of the surface I will go for the second method right may be after say one and a half months I am conducting a test I issue them a sheet individually I ask them to list down the terminologies whatever they have learned or whatever they remember you can easily see that more than 50 percentage of students write easily 20 or 25 terms and may be it takes 10 to 15 minutes then I ask them to identify 5 important terminologies which they feel quite important out of that listed what they have listed and they are supposed to define them. So, it becomes easier for on my part to evaluate the 5 which they have picked up finally and based on that I used to give mark this may myself and one of my colleagues are following and we are trying to also tell other faculties so that if they feel comfortable with that they can go further and coming to the practical course details may be all these we have already seen in many of the presentations we have a set of exercises which has to be I mean done probably weekly basis and the last point what I make to what I put here is since already program design and development subjects is being taught in the classroom it is not necessary to elaborate every topic again and again because as you very well know the topics will be some kind of repetition here it is with reference to a particular language here but still what we do is every 15 to 20 minutes of every practical session we have 3 hours of practical session every week that first 15 20 minutes is dedicated for that particular day's topic which naturally gives an what to say enhancement over what he or she has learned in the classroom with reference to the syntax so that is also a regular practice there not only with respect to this lab generally any lab you can find that way and maybe I am sorry I didn't elaborate the lab infrastructure here the gist has been given expected on the expected lines we have 400 systems with the divided into 8 labs with the supporting service both lease line as well as Wi-Fi and no doubt we have certain partnership with the listed companies and to conclude I will like to go upon these 3 or 4 points which I feel specially are the features which can be mentioned for this arm the very first point which I was telling while I went through the lesson plan the need or the application of various topics which we talk inside the classroom it is not that it is enough if we talk right in the beginning class which normally we do I also do it is always better to insist it periodically every 15 days or 20 days something like that because we have definitely relevance to the topics which we are teaching in the class to the real world which we can keep on relating this is being done for majority subjects at least in IT department in ISRM and this discussion of terminologies actually you could find the relevance when I said about surprises what I do I also insist upon this also every 4th period of a week I fix it probably Thursday or Friday I dedicate some time 10 to 15 minutes for discussing the terms which we have discussed on that 4 periods which really has got a good encouragement I mean for me from the side of students and also insist to take at least 5 minutes in a particular week every I mean in any one of the 4 periods I also fix that day preferably not the 4th period I take I give chance to any one of the student who all enters of course a pre-planned one to talk about a particular topic which he has he has already learned or about to learn or generally related to what we are studying that is also is being practiced all this I mean just for the sake of saying I am not saying is being really followed there and students are really showing interest to my surprise because we can very I mean very well understand that when we keep on teaching it is it becomes monotonous for many when you try to involve students automatically the response is really good which we have I mean which we are finding in the last one one and a half years and this provision is there in different universities we have this scheme either from the library laptops are issued and taken back just similar to how books are given of course to a limited number of students based on the availability or at subsidized prices laptops are also issued and the fifth point is general which we have all mentioned here it is also there some kind of extra classes or what is a concentration will be given I will happy to hear any comments from your side this infrastructure that you have spread in 8 labs all of it is used naturally when you are large number of students I guess sure so you are able to conduct labs for all the students in a shorter period of time because even in IIT we are required to conduct labs which are for two hours per student per week okay we are required to conduct it in 10 batches in five days in the nights timing wise you are asking one what reply I could give is the as you asked this editor package lab as well as this programming lab most of the branch editor package it is compulsory this is for majority of students certain branches have this paper in the third semester so we as you asked some 15 brand students will be there and those 15 or they are distributed within IIT department and computer science and mca department so roughly the total number of labs within this department comes to 20 or 22 with which we are able to easily share the students so the time limit is between 8 30 and 4 30 always I see you don't have to call them in the nights or evening are you a residential institution no partially I can be meaning there will be students staying outside and coming yes so therefore you cannot schedule anything at 10 o'clock in the night that is also that's one advantage we have on a compass no major advantage most of the new things like I remember when we got the Russian machine which is the IBM mainframe equivalent the first time the programming language one PL one was available and many people were interested so I run a 15 day course which was called an after dinner course yeah I mean it was named after dinner it would start at 9 o'clock it will carry on till people are sleepy so this facility is difficult when you don't have a residential camp but on the other hand it is not correct you see to schedule a student formally for a night lab you know a student should be either relaxing or playing bridge or sleeping or doing something else so almost all of you will conduct labs during the normal time only wonderful I must tell my director that all colleges I saw are better than IIT Mumbai infrastructure sir that residential problem is also available for faculties in a serum we find a 90 percentage of faculty travel at least one hour only 10 percentage are in the surrounding places with very minimum inside the campus so it is applicable both for students as well as faculty thank you so much